That does not make any sense. Unless you have been convicted as a criminal, why would you have a criminal record that would ban you from many jobs and foreign travel? If anybody knows any of the players that got (or will get) slapped in the wrist in Ottawa, Kingston, Montreal, Guelph or Waterloo, maybe they can confirm that they did not get a criminal record.
Being charged is the first step. Police lay charges all the time, only some of them lead to court and therefore to convictions if they are lucky.
Being charged does not limit you necessarily from travelling or applying for work or security checks. Being convicted, though does.
Many players get charged, and often just have a slap on the wrist instead of having the full penalty levied on them (make a donation to a charity or something vs paying out thousands of $$) or more often than not, the charges get dropped and NEVER see the inside of a court room.
Once you have been found not guilty, you can have your record of being charged (along with any and all pictures taken, interview notes, and fingerprints, or whatever was gathered against you) expunged totally...your lawyer should be able to do that after asking the court at the time of the trial.
I speak from personal experience here. My lawyer at the time also warned me that even though I witnessed the destruction of this evidence as well as any record of me being charged, someone somewhere in some organization has it a copy of it in their file. They can never use it against me, but chances are good its there somewhere for 'reference'...just in case.
When an individual is arrested for an offence, a record of their arrest is created on the local police level. The individual is typically fingerprinted and photographed. Even if the individual is ultimately not convicted, the arrest record remains, and can turn up in background checks when this individual applies for a job.
Records stored on CPIC are stored on the federal level, and can be accessed by law enforcement agencies across Canada. A criminal record search will reveal charges recorded on CPIC. CPIC records are divided into two main classes. In the first class, full convictions and the dispositions (sentences) imposed are recorded. In the second class, non-conviction records are recorded and stored for restricted distribution. However, information for restricted distribution can often appear in background checks.
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When an individual is arrested for an offence, a record of their arrest is created on the local police level. The individual is typically fingerprinted and photographed. Even if the individual is ultimately not convicted, the arrest record remains, and can turn up in background checks when this individual applies for a job.
Records stored on CPIC are stored on the federal level, and can be accessed by law enforcement agencies across Canada. A criminal record search will reveal charges recorded on CPIC. CPIC records are divided into two main classes. In the first class, full convictions and the dispositions (sentences) imposed are recorded. In the second class, non-conviction records are recorded and stored for restricted distribution. However, information for restricted distribution can often appear in background checks.